If you in Boston, please go see this show for me!!! I'm overjoyed to be part of this show curated by Amy Sudarsky!!

"In Her Own Image: Self-Portraits by Women 1900 - 2018" at the Concord Center for the Visual Arts in Concord, MA. I am so honored to be included in this show along with an incredible roster of artists including Joan Brown, Susanna Coffey, Lois Dodd, Ann Gale, Anne Harris, Catherine Kehoe, Dana Clancy, Susan Lichtman, Stephanie Pierce, Haley Hasler, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Kathe Kollwitz (!!), and sooooo many other heroine artists of mine!!

SEPTEMBER 14 THROUGH NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The arts community of St. Joseph and the region benefit from a close relationship between the AKMA and the art faculty at MWSU. The artists in this exhibition provide a solid foundation in the arts for their students and encourage exploration in new digital media and creative expression. This exhibition will present the recent work of faculty members who all continue to be active working artists.The public is invited to meet the artists at an Opening Reception Friday, September 14th from 5-7 pm. There is no charge to attend the Opening.

The Figure: In Paint and Line

A selection of works from Koplin Del Rio and Prographica galleries

The Figure: In Paint and Line, is a group exhibition of paintings and drawings exploring the human figure, as portrayed through the lenses of eight artists. The exhibition aims to offer various points of view — conceptually, technically and aesthetically — woven together in the thematic framework of the portrayal of the human figure.

The show acts as a survey of personal vantage points, processes and constructions where the viewer is invited to explore and appreciate both traditional technique and the unknowable essence of personal conception, as illustrated by the participating artists. The exhibition includes works in pencil, silverpoint, oil, and acrylic from artists Kenny Harris, Ira Korman, Judy Nimtz, Robert Schultz, Anne Petty, Ann Gale, Kathy Liao and Jordan Wolfson. The exhibiting artists have chosen to study traditional techniques extensively, and make central to the foundation of their work the basic principles of linear perspective, layering of pigments, and sculptural processes that are hallmarks of the Western art tradition.

Betsy Blodgett and Jonathan Goetz stopped by my studio for an interview a month ago and they've just published the Podcast interview on Hello Atelier! I had such a wonderful time chatting with them and Betsy prepared some incredibly insightful questions for me. Check out our conversation about my process, the studio, and some childhood memories!

I'll be teaching a workshop at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly MA through the Goetemann Residency next week! To sign up, see info below!

"Join us for this workshop that focuses on expressing narrative through figure, color, composition and gesture. It will be led by instructor Kathy Liao, our invited 2018 Goetemann Distinguished Artist/Teacher at The Rocky Neck Art Colony.

New this year: Liao’s workshop takes place at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly (Hardie Building, 23 Essex Street), offering large studio space for up to 15 students. All levels welcome.

The workshop is four days, from 9 to 3 each day. We will be working from a model for two of those days; studio space will stay open until 5.

Initiated in 2007, the Goetemann Distinguished Artist/Teacher program brings to Rocky Neck an artist with a national reputation. Liao, who has an MFA in Painting from Boston University, currently teaches painting and printmaking at Missouri Western State University.

Kathy Liao will also give a free lecture at the Cape Ann Museum on Sunday, August 5, at 2:00 pm.

Cost for the workshop is $400 for Rocky Neck Art Colony members; $500 for non members.

To Register: Send a check for full tuition made out to RNAC (please add Goetemann Artist Residency Workshop in memo line) to Pat Conant, Rocky Neck Cultural Center, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, Mass. 01930. INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL AND MAILING ADDRESS. You will receive a materials list and other information in July. Full refunds will be given only before July 20.

Four pieces of my work are selected for an exhibition in Seoul, South Korea.

ASYAAF, Asian Student and Young Artist Festival, is an annual art festival that showcases over 500 young artists for the span of one month. It provides young artists from Asia with a chance to meet general spectators and figures from the art world. The exhibition is curated by Sun Kyung Jeong (Sun), curator from Gallery LVS & LVS PROJECT in Seoul, South Korea.

Since the late 1960s painting has often been declared dead by one critic or another.

Seattle’s Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) exhibit Painters Who Fucking Know How to Paint, June 7 – July 14, asserts painting is vigorous, diverse, and burgeoning. This exhibit looks at artists who can really paint to recognize that they push the art form forward.

Photo by Kate Vrijmoet

Opening Reception on Thursday, June 7, 6pm – 9pm, as part of Pioneer Square Art Walk. An exhibit book will accompany the exhibit and artwork will be for sale. There will also be a panel discussion June 9, 11am-1pm. Gallery hours are Thursday - Saturday, 11am – 6pm.

Painters Who Fucking Know How to Paint is an invitational painting exhibit with a fresh curatorial eye: painters picking painters. “As curators, we seek to emphasize the personal dialog that the painter has with the surface in front of them,” say Kate Sweeney and Kate Vrijmoet, local painters who curated this exhibit. Vrijmoet and Sweeney invite painters “whose work gives us a punch in the gut, work that delivers the seduction of visual impact and presents perceptual, narrative, or process derived experiences, painters who #ucking know how to paint.”

This show provides a way for viewers into the mind of painters, and elucidates aspects of painting that, from the painters’ viewpoints, drive artists to continue to work in the genre. This allows access to the art form for a general audience and provides insight into how a painting becomes.

The H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute presents the 2018 Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile, an invitational biennial exhibition including artwork by over 200 regional visual artists. Visitors are invited to browse through artist portfolios and view rotating installations of artwork selected by local and regional guest curators.

The first Kansas City Flatfile exhibition was held at the Artspace in 2001 in conjunction with the Pierogi Flatfilesexhibition featuring flatfiles from Joe Amrhein’s Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y. The Kansas City Flatfile has since become a biennial invitational exhibition featuring a wide range of work by emerging and established artists from the Kansas City area.

Launched in 2003 to serve mid-career artists, Studios Inc is Kansas City’s only nonprofit arts organization offering pivotal three-year residencies to mid-career artists who are poised to significantly expand their careers in accordance with the career goals articulated in their residency application. Its competitive application process, sharp focus on career advancement, and commitment to serve the under-served population of mid-career artists set Studios Inc apart from other artist-support organizations. Studios Inc offers a unique immersion experience for resident artists, who use their studio and exhibition space to produce and exhibit work, network and learn from one another, and attract and cultivate relationships with art patrons, collectors, and arts professionals.

In a larger sense the creation of any art object is a form of externalized memory. Sometimes, however, the direct purpose of the artwork is to serve as a vehicle for a specific remembrance, a totem of loss, or a symbol of transition from a time, place, or state of being that is no longer accessible. As such, these objects become infused with more life—more substance—than they may at first appear to represent. Whether through abstract symbols, illustrations of the memorialized, or poetic conceptualizations of the idea of remembrance, Manifest asked artists to submit works made with these concepts in mind. This project was open to wide interpretation of the theme, and was not restricted to traditional definitions of the term 'in memoriam' (such as may relate to obituaries and epitaphs).

Manifest's blind jury process reviewed 575 works by 202 artists from 23 states and 6 countries for this exhibit. Twenty works by the following 12 artists from 8 states across the U.S. were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season.

Hello Supporters, Thank you all for following me on my studio practice and my journey the last couple of years! As some of you know, my studio residency at Charlotte Street Foundation is coming to a conclusion at the end of August. The studio residency opportunity had allowed me to find an incredible momentum in my studio practice and I am determined to KEEP GOING! I'm scouting out a new large painting studio in the West Bottoms and at this transition point, I'm turning to YOU for help. Starting next week, July 5th, I'm planning to launch a Patreon account to seek monthly contribution toward the studio rent. THIS IS SIGNIFICANT as I cannot afford a space without your support. Every cent will go towards my studio rent and sustaining my studio practice. So keep an eye out on July 5th, the first to contribute will receive A PAINTING from me outright. There will be tiered awards including exclusive access to previews and Painting/Drawing demo videos (for you life-long learners out there!) by yours truly. Super Star Patron will have the pick of ANY work from my studio - how awesome is that?

This exhibition is intended to pay homage to the art and values of artist David Park (1911-1960), the founder of the tradition of Bay Area Figurative painting. It does not include Park’s own works, but instead features the works of two invited artists, Kyle Staver and Jennifer Pochinski, and 35 artists chosen by a panel of four jurors, John Seed, DeWitt Cheng, Andrea Pappas, and Jessica Phillips

Opening December 16th, PLUG Projects’ new exhibition, You’ll Never Be Younger Than You Are Today features work by Frank Abruzzese, Jonathan Apgar, Lyndon Barrois Jr., Matt Bollinger, Vera Iliatova, and Kathy Liao which explores the emotional landscapes and fantastic possibilities of the everyday through sculpture, painting, and photography. Each of these artists are deeply entrenched in contextualizing the space of the narrative and posing questions about societal structures. A realm of fantasy is opened with these works which contrasts fractured figural landscapes with desolate vast spaces and creates an air of uneasiness amplified by the color relationships that exist within each piece. Collectively the works provide an alternative way of looking at presence and place, while individually each piece presents a discreet opportunity for world building with infinite potential.